Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous